Advent Calendar 2019 Day 12: Ark Royal - The Rock Show, 1986

It was a rock show. On HMS Ark Royal. Moored in Gibraltar at the time and clearly filmed in much warmer climes than its Christmas Day airing (late October, apparently) as part of many a failed ITV attempt to directly challenge Top Of The Pops' big day hegemony. "We've got rock on the beaches, we've got rock on the streets!" promises Sue Robbie, which she fails to deliver on, though Cyndi Lauper tries her best and Bob Geldof provokes a small scale stage invasion.

WHAT'S ON BBC1?: As mentioned this went out at 2pm on Christmas Day so was doomed to failure against the TOTP pop juggernaut responsible for David Essex in 1974, Zoo dancing to O Superman in 1981, a patched together Band Aid in 1984, T'Pau and a deflating snowman in 1987 and the mess of 1991